Comments on: The crowd reports the Virginia Tech story http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/17/the-crowd-reports-the-virginia-tech-story/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: /pd http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/17/the-crowd-reports-the-virginia-tech-story/#comment-248940 /pd Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:00:26 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/17/the-crowd-reports-the-virginia-tech-story/#comment-248940 the other really dark side (after the fact) also needs to be told .. cyber sqautters are registering victms names and park on sites that are adsense driven... simply wrong.. wrote a <a href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/another_horribl.html" rel="nofollow">small note </a> the other really dark side (after the fact) also needs to be told .. cyber sqautters are registering victms names and park on sites that are adsense driven… simply wrong.. wrote a small note

]]> By: Kate Zimmermann http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/17/the-crowd-reports-the-virginia-tech-story/#comment-248825 Kate Zimmermann Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:45:32 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/17/the-crowd-reports-the-virginia-tech-story/#comment-248825 It's amazing how transparent the development of the story was from social to mainstream media. You can see journalists from NBC, NPR, etc, using blog comments and facebook forums to try to find eyewitnesses.: http://searchviews.com/archives/2007/04/virginia_tech_shootings.php Also, it should be noted that the false identification in facebook was almost immediately corrected by other students participating in the forum. I don't think it was a "failure of networked journalism" so much as a sensationalized blip resulting from the story's transparency. It’s amazing how transparent the development of the story was from social to mainstream media. You can see journalists from NBC, NPR, etc, using blog comments and facebook forums to try to find eyewitnesses.:

http://searchviews.com/archives/2007/04/virginia_tech_shootings.php

Also, it should be noted that the false identification in facebook was almost immediately corrected by other students participating in the forum. I don’t think it was a “failure of networked journalism” so much as a sensationalized blip resulting from the story’s transparency.

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